That is probably the stupidest XKCD comick they've ever done. Comparing the resolution of a large screen tv to a little phone screen?

/WOOOSH

Please elaborate, professor. There must be something beyond the obvious wrongheadedness of the comic that would elude anyone that actually knows a bit about what goes into making an HDTV and delivering video to it.

That is probably the stupidest XKCD comick they've ever done. Comparing the resolution of a large screen tv to a little phone screen?

/WOOOSH

Please elaborate, professor. There must be something beyond the obvious wrongheadedness of the comic that would elude anyone that actually knows a bit about what goes into making an HDTV and delivering video to it.

That is probably the stupidest XKCD comick they've ever done. Comparing the resolution of a large screen tv to a little phone screen?

/WOOOSH

Please elaborate, professor. There must be something beyond the obvious wrongheadedness of the comic that would elude anyone that actually knows a bit about what goes into making an HDTV and delivering video to it.

moviemarketing:jaytkay: You know the difference between 1080p and 720p when you're six feet from the TV?

If you say yes, you're wrong.

1080i and 720p are quite similar, but 1080p and 720p are night and day different with my projector at about 15 feet from the sofa. I've watched a number blu-ray titles that I've also seen in cinemas several times and some have looked better on my home projector at 1080p.

Nothing at 720p or 1080i looks remotely comparable to cinema quality.

What the hell is this "cinema" quality shiat people keep talking about? Every time I go to a movie theater, the picture is grainy as fark and the frame rate is low as shiat. My POS 500 dollar LG 42" 1080p TV looks lightyears better than any theater.

That is probably the stupidest XKCD comick they've ever done. Comparing the resolution of a large screen tv to a little phone screen?

/WOOOSH

Please elaborate, professor. There must be something beyond the obvious wrongheadedness of the comic that would elude anyone that actually knows a bit about what goes into making an HDTV and delivering video to it.

Shakin_Haitian:moviemarketing: jaytkay: You know the difference between 1080p and 720p when you're six feet from the TV?

If you say yes, you're wrong.

1080i and 720p are quite similar, but 1080p and 720p are night and day different with my projector at about 15 feet from the sofa. I've watched a number blu-ray titles that I've also seen in cinemas several times and some have looked better on my home projector at 1080p.

Nothing at 720p or 1080i looks remotely comparable to cinema quality.

What the hell is this "cinema" quality shiat people keep talking about? Every time I go to a movie theater, the picture is grainy as fark and the frame rate is low as shiat. My POS 500 dollar LG 42" 1080p TV looks lightyears better than any theater.

Maybe you need to try a different cinema. In theaters that are used for both 3D and 2D screenings, sometimes the projectionists don't properly calibrate for 2D, or even leave the Sony 3D lenses on, which makes the image a lot darker.

moviemarketing:Shakin_Haitian: moviemarketing: jaytkay: You know the difference between 1080p and 720p when you're six feet from the TV?

If you say yes, you're wrong.

1080i and 720p are quite similar, but 1080p and 720p are night and day different with my projector at about 15 feet from the sofa. I've watched a number blu-ray titles that I've also seen in cinemas several times and some have looked better on my home projector at 1080p.

Nothing at 720p or 1080i looks remotely comparable to cinema quality.

What the hell is this "cinema" quality shiat people keep talking about? Every time I go to a movie theater, the picture is grainy as fark and the frame rate is low as shiat. My POS 500 dollar LG 42" 1080p TV looks lightyears better than any theater.

Maybe you need to try a different cinema. In theaters that are used for both 3D and 2D screenings, sometimes the projectionists don't properly calibrate for 2D, or even leave the Sony 3D lenses on, which makes the image a lot darker.

I've been to something like six different cinemas in the last year, and I still see the same graininess and flickering at every one. If my wife wasn't so insistent in the whole theater experience, I would have stopped going a long time ago.

Shakin_Haitian:What the hell is this "cinema" quality shiat people keep talking about? Every time I go to a movie theater, the picture is grainy as fark and the frame rate is low as shiat. My POS 500 dollar LG 42" 1080p TV looks lightyears better than any theater.

Films are still shot at 32 FPS because people associate the higher framerate of 60Hz with television and think it makes things look cheap, when really 60 or 120 FPS is far better.

Activision has aimed for a solid 60FPS in modern Call of Duty games. This is before accounting for anything else.

However, of course, you get slowdowns when 16+ players all throw grenades and rockets and smoke grenades and cause all kinds of particle effects on top of map effects and lighting and so on. Naturally, this can make the framerate chug.

I'd wager that they'd rather not go through the effort of optimizing the WiiU port to get decent performance at 1080p (rather, they probably want to make the port as quickly as possible - at this point the 360 is still probably their main target platform) and by keeping the resolution at 720p, they can guarantee a more consistent 60FPS during more intense scenes.

It's strange to give them the benefit of the doubt.

fluffy2097:Films are still shot at 32 FPS because people associate the higher framerate of 60Hz with television and think it makes things look cheap, when really 60 or 120 FPS is far better.

/they commonly say it looks "too real"//r-tards.

It's due to familiarity.If films had always been 48+/60fps and soap operas the opposite, then the situation would be reversed.

Peter Jackson says that your mind drops the stigma after about 15 minutes or so of watching a high-fps movie. Gives me high hopes for the potential 48fps bluray release of The Hobbit (since they made the theatrical release very select, sadly).

1080p on a reasonably sized television is far from how sharp it could be before your eyes can't tell the difference in an increase in DPI. If you can't tell the difference between 720p and 1080p then you need a much bigger television. Oldtimey syndrome can kick in once TV's surpass 300 DPI, not a pathetic 50-80 DPI.